Has anyone ever done anything this stupid? (Page 1 of 2)

Well I have never done anything stupid in my entire life nor have I ever told a lie

have i done something stupid..? oh yes!!!

latest stupid decision was to buy a pair of speakers off the internet before hearing them...
i'm now paying the price for buying cheap .

i bought a pair of FBT's which were top notch til one blew a speaker. to repair the driver would cost £95 + so i asked about buying a new pair from the music shop and using the speakers as part exchange. they said yes but would only allow me £150 for the two against the new pair costing about £400. FBT's are selling 2nd hand at around £350-400 each, so i told the shop to stick his £150 where a monkey sticks his nuts and surfed the net till i found a pair of Laney's for £200 the pair! and they were delivered in 2 days...result. unfortunately, they have a very dull, bassey sound and dont lend themselves to backing tracks and guitar.

so there you have it, listen/play before you buy. my something stupid

Stupidity has been epidemic in my life, but I would rather not share those moments. At least for most of us, the good thing is, that right after we apply the stupid moment, we realize right away that that sure was a stupid thing to do.  That's what sets us apart from primal stupidity and we never do it again, until the next time.  I have never been a fan of stupidity, but it happens to the best of us.

Sorry to hear about your accident JJJ and the painful result.

Because of the type of work I've done and hobbies enjoyed, I've beat up my fingers a lot.  One of the worst was from a table saw. I was building a house to sell on spec and had been trying to get it done for the spring market, putting in a lot of hours in the evenings and weekends when I wasn't working my normal job.  I was on my 3rd straight 20-hour day and my wife begged me to take a day off because I looked tired, but I needed to finish up some trim in one room.  I was using a table saw with the guard removed because it had broken a few days before and I didn't want to take the time to fix it.  I was being real careful and was even using a push stick so my hands wouldn't get near the blade.  A couple hours in to the job I pushed a board through, turned off the saw and while the blade was till spinning reached for the board.  When my fingers were an inch from the blade I realized what was happening but my reactions were too slow and my fingers went into the blade before I could pull them back.  When I finally jerked them back, blood splattered over my safety glasses and onto the ceiling of the room I was working in.  I was afraid to look at first, thinking my fingers were gone, but I took a peek and was relieved to see my fingers still there.  It looked like someone had stuck firecrackers in the ends of three of them and blew them apart.  Emergency room couldn't stitch them so they put metal caps over the ends of three fingers and it was a month before I use my guitar again.  It was probably a year before I could hear a saw start up without flinching.

DE

I burned my fretting hand. The tips of my fingers that touch the strings. I wish it were my picking hand. (actually neither hand). Then I could use a thumbpick. Didn`t burn those.

Well there was this time in New Orleans when I saw a light switch covered in duct tape next to the Dippin' Dots stand.  The duct tape looked like it was falling off so I thought I'd help and clean it off.  Turns out to have been a very bad idea.

Ironic- I burned my fingers and someone called Fire Art is commenting. Am I the only one that see`s the humor in this. Actually, back in 1994, I was fixing an old Silvertone console tube radio for someone. I put my soldering iron down and leaned on it. I jumped holding my hand. I held my tongue because they had young children. After composing myself, I leaned on it again on the same spot on my hand. Twice in a matter of 2 minutes. I have a knack for burning myself

I was hiding under a parked car to scare some trick or treaters and I dislocated my shoulder and tore the rotator cuff two days before my wedding.  She who must be obeyed was not happy.  She saw the sling, gritted her teeth and said "that better fit under your tux"!

I've got two scars from different adventures with fireworks.

Went deaf for two days following an "experiment" with ocy-acetylene in my jr. high metal shop class.

I've done lots of dumb stuff but those were the ones where my luck failed most spectacularly.

Getting married for the first time was stupid................................... repeating the excercise was shear lunacy .

Had I found the right girl in the first place, as many of you seem to have done, then it would have been a different story.

Oh well, you know what they say, third time lucky .

Roger

I have scars on my face and arm from doing the same thing Badeye.  It wasn't a plate glass window in my case, but a storm door on my own house.

i'm on number 2 roger, there wont be a number 3, if push came to shove, i think i'd rather be lonely, especially as ann is wonderful and no one else could fill her slippers

phill

Roger ...

You may have heard former YES keyboardist Rick Wakeman commenting on marriage, during one of his Grumpy Old Man stage shows. He mentioned he was about to get married for the 4th time, and confessed a total lacking of understanding of wives. He suspected this was somehow linked to his lack of understanding of women. He felt his second wife left him for a trivial reason, i.e., that he wouldn't open the car door for her. His excuse was that he panicked, and swam for the surface.

I have to confess being married to the same wonderful lady for 34 years ... 'til death do us part.